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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

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Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

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The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

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A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.

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The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

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I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.

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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

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He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

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There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience, we have found none equal to it for the commodiousness it affords in working with the Understanding.

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You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

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God's first creature, which was light.

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.

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Friends are thieves of time.

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

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Money is a great servant but a bad master.

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The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.

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